Johann Gottfried Brügelmann (baptized 6 July 1750 in Elberfeld, now a district of
Wuppertal
Wuppertal (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, with a population of 355,000. Wuppertal is the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and List of cities in Germany by population, 17th-largest in Germany. It ...
- 27 December 1802,
Ratingen
Ratingen (; ) is a town in the district of Mettmann in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies in the northwestern part of Berg about 12 km northeast of Düsseldorf.
Administration
With a communal reform of 1975 the independent municipalit ...
) was a German industrialist, most notable as founder of the first factory on mainland Europe, one of the forerunners of the
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global economy toward more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes, succee ...
.
External links
guelcher-chronik.de
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18th-century German businesspeople
Businesspeople from Wuppertal